PRTG Manual: Support—Contact Support

For technical issues, please use the Contact Paessler Support / Send Your Feedback to Paessler form in PRTG. To open the form, select Setup | Contact Support from the main menu. You can also open the form via Contact Support in the footer on every page in PRTG.

How to Open the Contact Support Form

On the one hand, you can use this form to give us feedback. Help improve PRTG by providing criticism, praise, bug reports, and feature requests. Any comments are welcome! Your feedback will be handled directly by the Paessler Support Team.

On the other hand, you can use this form to ask for support regarding technical issues. To make the support contact more comfortable, PRTG can automatically attach a screenshot in combination with a Support Bundle that contains several selected PRTG logfiles and status files. This information really helps our support team to analyze any issue you may have with PRTG. Please also consider the suggested links to articles regarding the scope of your issue.

We offer our support directly from our headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, working closely with our development department to guarantee the fastest and most constructive assistance possible. As we have to analyze a lot of data over the course of a support case, like logfiles and screenshots, we use email as our primary support mechanism. Our office is staffed Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m. (UTC+1), so you will receive an answer within 24 hours on business days. Depending on the complexity of the case, we may need to ask for remote access to your system, or to schedule a remote desktop session.

One-to-One Support

Customers with valid maintenance can open support tickets. Please use the Contact Support form of your PRTG installation for technical questions to get the best possible help from our experts. If you have trouble using this form, you can fill out the support ticket form on our webpage.

Do you use our Freeware? We try to answer your questions in a timely manner but if we are busy, paying customers come first. You may find an answer in our Knowledge Base.

Single Topics

Please open a new ticket for each new topic.

Communication Methods

Please write us in English or German and communicate via email. This is the best way for us to analyze your logfiles, screenshots, and other data in detail. We always try to answer within 24 hours on business days. If necessary, we will ask you for remote access.

Paessler safeguards data that you send to our organization in the same manner in which we protect our own similar confidential information and in accordance with the GDPR. However, Paessler cannot guarantee that your data will be handled in compliance with all regulatory standards that are applicable to such data. Accordingly, do not send any data that is subject to regulations that prescribe special handling requirements to Paessler. If your data file contains this type of regulated information, contact us before sending it. We can discuss masking, obfuscation, or other possible methods of converting your data set to a format that Paessler can manage.

Security Reports

If you are a user of PRTG or any other of our services and would like to file a security report, please send an email to [email protected]. Please always include a detailed technical summary in your email. If you wish to send us an encrypted email, please use the public key on this page https://www.paessler.com/support.

Provide the following information in this section of the contact form:

Your Ticket ID PAE<id>: If you have already opened a ticket (directly via email to [email protected], via the Knowledge Base, or via the support form on paessler.com), enter its ID here. You can find it in your confirmation email regarding the request we received. You can provide the ID with "PAE" in front or just the number. If you leave this field empty, you will create a new ticket when you submit this form.

Your Email Address: Enter your email address here. You can provide any of your addresses; however, the recommended and default address is the email address of your PRTG account to be able to associate you with your license.

Emotional State: If you want to, you can indicate your current feelings about PRTG.

Enter a subject for your question/feedback: Provide short information with max. 60 characters to indicate the topic of your issue.

Enter a detailed description: Leave your comments here. They can be feedback or support questions. If you have a support question, please describe your issue with as much detail as possible!

Attach a Screenshot and/or Support Bundle

To provide the most helpful information possible, you can attach a screenshot of the current page and a support bundle with useful analytical data about your PRTG installation.

In section Screenshot, choose between:

Do not attach screenshot: Send the ticket without a screenshot.If you ask for technical help, we recommend that you attach a screenshot of the affected PRTG webpage. This helps us a lot to analyze your issue and to provide a solution.

Create and attach screenshot (recommended): PRTG creates a screenshot of the currently displayed page and sends it with your ticket. You can see a preview below the screenshot section. We recommend that you open the contact support form directly on the page where you encountered an issue. Taking screenshots is not possible on some generic error pages that are not meaningful enough for our support team.

In the section Support Bundle, you can choose from several packages that differ in coverage of information:

Send this package only if our support team told you so! Usernames, encrypted passwords in the config.dat file, and passwords that your browser masks while you enter them on settings pages will be removed before PRTG sends this package to Paessler Support.

Do not attach a Support Bundle: The ticket will not contain files. Choose this option only when sending feedback.

Click the OK button to send your request directly to our technical support team, or click Cancel to return to the page where you opened the contact form. Usually, you will receive an answer from our support team within one or two business days.

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